On December 16, 2010, Keach began performances as patriarch Lyman Wyeth in the off-Broadway premiere of Jon Robin Baitz' acclaimed new play Other Desert Cities. The production transferred to Broadway's Booth Theatre, where it opened November 3, 2011.

Keach was scheduled to play Ernest Hemingway in Jim McGrath's one-man play Pamplona at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago from May 30 to June 25, 2017. Keach appeared in previews of Pamplona, May 19 through May 28, and was well received by audiences. He was reported as sick on opening night, but still went on stage. The production was halted about an hour into the performance due to his ill health.[10] The following two nights' performances were also canceled, and on June 2, the Goodman Theatre announced that the entire run would be canceled because Keach's doctors advised a period of rest and recuperation for him.[11]

In 2000, he played Ken Titus, the father of the title character in Fox's sitcomTitus. Cast members of Titus have commented they enjoyed working with Keach because he would find a way to make even the driest line funny.[14]

In 2008, Keach once again reprised his famous role as Mike Hammer in a series of full-cast radio dramatisations for Blackstone Audio. (He also arranged and performed the music for the audio dramas. His wife, Malgosia Tomassi also starred in the dramas playing Maya Ricci, a yoga instructor.) Keach has also read many of Mickey Spillane's original Mike Hammer novels as Audiobooks.

Keach played the role of John in The Truth & Life Dramatized Audio Bible, a 22-hour audio version of the RSV-CE translation of the New Testament.[16] He also voiced both Job and Paul the Apostle in The Word of Promise, a 2007 dramatic audio presentation based on the New King James Version. [17]

Keach was born with a cleft lip and a partial cleft of the hard palate, and he underwent numerous operations as a child. Throughout his adult life he has often worn a mustache to hide the scars. He is now the honorary chairman of the Cleft Palate Foundation, and advocates for insurance coverage for such surgeries.[18]

Keach stated that his time in prison (which he said was the lowest point of his life) and the friendship he formed with a priest during that time led to his conversion to Roman Catholicism. Subsequently, he and his wife met with PopeJohn Paul II to have their son blessed. His wife, Malgosia Tomassi, had gone to the same school as the Pope had attended in Warsaw when young.[20]

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Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah is the oldest city in the U. S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the British colonial capital of the Province of Georgia, a strategic port city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War, Savannah is today an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport. It is Georgias fifth-largest city and third-largest metropolitan area, Downtown Savannah largely retains the original town plan prescribed by founder James Oglethorpe. Savannah was the host city for the sailing competitions during the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta. On February 12,1733, General James Oglethorpe and settlers from the ship Anne landed at Yamacraw Bluff and were greeted by Tomochichi, the Yamacraws, Mary Musgrove often served as an interpreter. The city of Savannah was founded on that date, along with the colony of Georgia, in 1751, Savannah and the rest of Georgia became a Royal Colony and Savannah was made the colonial capital of Georgia. By the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, Savannah had become the southernmost commercial port of the Thirteen Colonies, British troops took the city in 1778, and the following year a combined force of American and French soldiers failed to rout the British at the Siege of Savannah. The British did not leave the city until July 1782, Savannah, a prosperous seaport throughout the nineteenth century, was the Confederacys sixth most populous city and the prime objective of General William T. Shermans March to the Sea. Early on December 21,1864, local authorities negotiated a surrender to save Savannah from destruction. Savannah was named for the Savannah River, which derives from variant names for the Shawnee. The Shawnee destroyed another Native people, the Westo, and occupied their lands at the head of the Savannah Rivers navigation on the fall line and these Shawnee, whose Native name was Ša·wano·ki, were known by several local variants, including Shawano, Savano, Savana and Savannah. Still other theories suggest that the name Savannah originates from Algonquian terms meaning not only southerners, Savannah lies on the Savannah River, approximately 20 mi upriver from the Atlantic Ocean. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 108.7 square miles. Savannah is the port on the Savannah River and the largest port in the state of Georgia. It is also located near the U. S. Intracoastal Waterway, Georgias Ogeechee River flows toward the Atlantic Ocean some 16 miles south of downtown Savannah. Savannahs climate is classified as humid subtropical, in the Deep South, this is characterized by long and almost tropical summers and short, mild winters. Savannah records few days of freezing temperatures each year, due to its proximity to the Atlantic coast, Savannah rarely experiences temperatures as extreme as those in Georgias interior. Nevertheless, the temperatures have officially ranged from 105 °F, on July 20,1986, down to 3 °F

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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci

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Actor
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Anyone who meets the eligibility requirements may apply for aid, which could vary from medical assistance, paying rent, or finding employment. Heros benefits are not meant to be a permanent crutch for needy creators, any granted aid is kept confidential. The Hero Initiative has two boards of directors, the Executive Board and the Fund Disbursement Board, former board members include founders Pat McCallum, editor-in-chief of Wizard Magazine, and Mike Richardson, publisher and founder of Dark Horse Comics. They are George Pérez, Roy Thomas, Charlie Novinskie, Dennis ONeil, John Romita Sr. the charity is currently supported by Dark Horse Comics, Dynamic Forces, Image Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Top Cow Productions, and Wizard Entertainment. The Hero Initiative utilizes many methods of fundraising, foremost is their annual art auction, auctioning donated original comics art-work at fan conventions. Year-long, they sell donated art and special edition comics at conventions, artists, writers, and publishers are invited to donate work, and fans are invited to donate money directly to the fund. ACTOR also sells a green Excelsior, wrist-band similar in design to the Livestrong wristband. The Hero Initiative was formerly known as A Commitment to Our Roots, or ACTOR, while the original name of the organization reflected the charitys goal, the acronym that resulted, ACTOR, more often confused people unfamiliar with the organization. 2006, George Pérez, John Romita, Sr.2007, Joe Kubert 2008, Nick Cardy 2009, Neal Adams 2010, Walt Simonson 2011, Stan Lee 2012, John Romita, Jr. The award recognizes one person in each year who demonstrates particular generosity and integrity in support of the overall comic book community. It debuted at the 2010 Harvey Awards ceremony held at the Baltimore Comic-Con

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Theatre
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The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence, the specific place of the performance is also named by the word theatre as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον, itself from θεάομαι. Modern theatre, broadly defined, includes performances of plays and musical theatre, there are connections between theatre and the art forms of ballet, opera and various other forms. The city-state of Athens is where western theatre originated, participation in the city-states many festivals—and mandatory attendance at the City Dionysia as an audience member in particular—was an important part of citizenship. The Greeks also developed the concepts of dramatic criticism and theatre architecture, Actors were either amateur or at best semi-professional. The theatre of ancient Greece consisted of three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play, the origins of theatre in ancient Greece, according to Aristotle, the first theoretician of theatre, are to be found in the festivals that honoured Dionysus. The performances were given in semi-circular auditoria cut into hillsides, capable of seating 10, the stage consisted of a dancing floor, dressing room and scene-building area. Since the words were the most important part, good acoustics, the actors wore masks appropriate to the characters they represented, and each might play several parts. Athenian tragedy—the oldest surviving form of tragedy—is a type of dance-drama that formed an important part of the culture of the city-state. Having emerged sometime during the 6th century BCE, it flowered during the 5th century BCE, no tragedies from the 6th century BCE and only 32 of the more than a thousand that were performed in during the 5th century BCE have survived. We have complete texts extant by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the origins of tragedy remain obscure, though by the 5th century BCE it was institution alised in competitions held as part of festivities celebrating Dionysus. As contestants in the City Dionysias competition playwrights were required to present a tetralogy of plays, the performance of tragedies at the City Dionysia may have begun as early as 534 BCE, official records begin from 501 BCE, when the satyr play was introduced. More than 130 years later, the philosopher Aristotle analysed 5th-century Athenian tragedy in the oldest surviving work of dramatic theory—his Poetics, Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods, Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, and New Comedy. Old Comedy survives today largely in the form of the surviving plays of Aristophanes. New Comedy is known primarily from the papyrus fragments of Menander. Aristotle defined comedy as a representation of people that involves some kind of blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain or disaster. In addition to the categories of comedy and tragedy at the City Dionysia, finding its origins in rural, agricultural rituals dedicated to Dionysus, the satyr play eventually found its way to Athens in its most well-known form. Satyrs themselves were tied to the god Dionysus as his loyal companions, often engaging in drunken revelry

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Film
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A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, the process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. The word cinema, short for cinematography, is used to refer to the industry of films. Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through a photochemical process, the adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the process of production, distribution. Films recorded in a form traditionally included an analogous optical soundtrack. It runs along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it and is not projected, Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them, Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens. The visual basis of film gives it a power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles to translate the dialog into the language of the viewer, some have criticized the film industrys glorification of violence and its potentially negative treatment of women. The individual images that make up a film are called frames, the perception of motion is due to a psychological effect called phi phenomenon. The name film originates from the fact that film has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for a motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay. The most common term in the United States is movie, while in Europe film is preferred. Terms for the field, in general, include the big screen, the screen, the movies, and cinema. In early years, the sheet was sometimes used instead of screen. Preceding film in origin by thousands of years, early plays and dances had elements common to film, scripts, sets, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, much terminology later used in film theory and criticism apply, such as mise en scène. Owing to the lack of any technology for doing so, the moving images, the magic lantern, probably created by Christiaan Huygens in the 1650s, could be used to project animation, which was achieved by various types of mechanical slides

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Mickey Spillane
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Frank Morrison Spillane, better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally, Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself. Born in Brooklyn, New York City, and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Spillane was the child of his Irish bartender father, John Joseph Spillane. Spillane attended Erasmus Hall High School, graduating in 1935. during World War II Spillane enlisted in the Army Air Corps, becoming a fighter pilot and a flight instructor. While flying over Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, he said and he was an active Jehovahs Witness. Mickey and Mary Ann Spillane had four children, and their marriage ended in 1962, in November 1965, he married his second wife, nightclub singer Sherri Malinou. After that marriage ended in divorce in 1983, Spillane shared his waterfront house in Murrells Inlet with his wife, Jane Rogers Johnson, whom he married in October 1983. In the 1960s, Spillane became a friend of the novelist Ayn Rand, despite their apparent differences, Rand admired Spillanes literary style, and Spillane became, as he described it, a fan of Rands work. In 1989, Hurricane Hugo ravaged his Murrells Inlet house to such a degree it had to be almost entirely reconstructed, a television interview showed Spillane standing in the ruins of his house. He received an Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award in 1995, Spillanes novels went out of print, but in 2001, the New American Library began reissuing them. Spillane died July 17,2006 at his home in Murrells Inlet, after his death, his friend and literary executor, Max Allan Collins, began the task of editing and completing Spillanes unpublished typescripts, beginning with a Mike Hammer novel, The Goliath Bone. In July 2011, the town of Murrells Inlet named U. S17 Business the Mickey Spillane Waterfront 17 Highway, the proposal first passed the Georgetown County Council in 2006 while Spillane was still alive, but the South Carolina General Assembly rejected the plan then. He is survived by his wife, Jane Spillane, Spillane started as a writer for comic books. While working as a salesman in Gimbels department store basement in 1940, he met tie salesman Joe Gill, Gill told Spillane to meet his brother, Ray Gill, who wrote for Funnies Inc. an outfit that packaged comic books for different publishers. Spillane soon began writing a story every day. He concocted adventures for major 1940s comic book characters, including Captain Marvel, Superman, Batman, two-page text stories, which he wrote in the mid-1940s for Timely, appeared under his name and were collected in Primal Spillane. Spillane joined the United States Army Air Forces on December 8,1941, in the mid-1940s he was stationed as a flight instructor in Greenwood, Mississippi, where he met and married Mary Ann Pearce in 1945. The couple wanted to buy a house in the town of Newburgh, New York,60 miles north of New York City

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Mike Hammer
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Michael Mike Hammer is a fictional hard boiled detective created by the American author Mickey Spillane in the 1947 book I, the Jury. In 1946, Spillane, an established writer, worked with illustrator Mike Roy to create the private-eye character Mike Danger for proposed comic-book or comic-strip publication. Unable to sell the project as a comic, he reworked the story as the novel I, Spillane wrote the work in nine days by some accounts,19 in others. In The Big Kill Hammer describes himself to a bargirl as a misanthrope, Hammer is also loosely based on the real-life hard-boiled Texas Ranger and gunfighter Frank Hamer, who was most famous for tracking down and killing Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in 1934. While other hardboiled heroes bend and manipulate the law, Hammer often views it as an impediment to justice, the one virtue he holds in absolute esteem. Hammer nevertheless has a respect for the majority of police, realizing they have a difficult job. Mike Hammer is a private investigator who carries a.45 Colt M1911A1 in a shoulder harness under his left arm. His love for his secretary Velda is outweighed only by his willingness to kill a killer, Hammers best friend is Pat Chambers, Captain of Homicide NYPD. Hammer was a World War II army veteran who spent two years fighting jungle warfare in the Pacific theatre against Japan, Hammer is also patriotic and anti-communist. The novels are peppered with remarks by Hammer supporting American troops in Korea, in One Lonely Night, where Hammer attends a communist meeting in a park, his reaction to the speakers propaganda is a sarcastic Yeah. So far as violence is concerned, the Hammer novels leave little to the imagination, written in the first person, Hammer describes his violent encounters with relish. In all but a few novels, Hammers victims are often left vomiting after a blow to the stomach or groin, Mickey Spillane has said of his character, See, heroes never die. John Wayne isnt dead, Elvis isnt dead, otherwise you dont have a hero. Thats why I never let him get older, Spillane himself played Hammer in a 1963 motion picture adaptation of The Girl Hunters. Spillane himself favoured ex-Marine and former Newburgh, New York police officer Jack Stang, on whom he based the character, Stang appeared with Spillane in the 1954 film Ring of Fear and in the film adaptation of I, the Jury. I, the Jury, filmed in 3-D starring Biff Elliot as Mike Hammer, kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich was the director, Ralph Meeker was cast as Hammer, while Maxine Cooper portrayed Hammers sexy secretary/companion Velda. My Gun Is Quick, Robert Bray was cast as Hammer, the film grossed $308,000 with a total of $602 overseas. The Girl Hunters, Mickey Spillane was given the opportunity to portray his own creation in this film

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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

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American Greed
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The program is narrated by Stacy Keach Jr. and produced by Kurtis Productions. The program focuses on the stories behind some of the biggest corporate and white collar crimes in recent U. S. history, examples include WorldCom, HealthSouth, in addition, stories about common financial crimes that affect scores of everyday citizens are also featured. The series has also produced specials on subjects like Bernie Madoffs life behind bars, 9-11 fraudsters, in season four, the show covered stories including high-profile cases such as Raffaello Follieri, Marcus Schrenker, and Sholam Weiss. The show began airing its tenth season in 2016 and it has also created a spin-off series called American Greed, The Fugitives, this focuses on white-collar criminals who have not been brought to justice yet. In civil fraud claims, courts require that the fraud be pleaded with specificity, richard Scrushy, The Rise and fall of the King of Health Care. Handbook of Frauds, Scams, and Swindles, Failures of Ethics in Leadership, the Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse. A Financial History of Modern U. S, corporate Scandals, From Enron to Reform. Ashcroft v. Iqbal,556 U. S.662, official Website American Greed at the Internet Movie Database

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Titus (TV series)
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Titus is an American dark comedy sitcom that debuted on Fox in 2000. The series was created by its star, Christopher Titus, Jack Kenny, Titus plays an outwardly childish adult, who owns a custom car shop. Titus began doing comedy when he was 18, after two years of relatively normal comedy bits, his act soon began to evolve to focus around his family, particularly his fathers heart attacks and his mothers mental illness. One night while performing, an assistant to a Fox executive was in the audience, knowing he had a deal with Fox, Titus wanted Dad is Dead to be the pilot. After the series ended, Titus commented that, if one watches Norman Rockwell is Bleeding, and then Dad is Dead, episodes were blocked and rehearsed extensively, and shot on Friday every week. The cast also had different methods of working, being a comedian, Titus knew where the punchline would be and never explored anything else. Zack Ward had difficulty finding the joke during rehearsals, but Kenny realized that he was looking for where the joke could be, Watros asked Titus to point out where the joke was, and promised to hit her marks. During breaks in rehearsal, Shatraw would work by himself on set, the season two episode The Last Noelle is one of Tituss favorites, and is based on his relationship with an abusive ex-girlfriend. Cynthia Watros was the first person to audition for the role of Erin, steve Carell and Zack Ward both auditioned for Tommy, Carell lost out to David Shatraw, while Ward was soon cast as Tituss brother, Dave. After a number of auditions for Tituss father Ken, Stacy Keach was cast after Titus admitted Keach intimidated him, before his passing, Christophers real father, Ken Titus, would give tips to Keach on how to better portray him. Titus also admitted that, even with the driest line the writers could invent and this often upset Titus because Keachs set-up would be funnier than Tituss punchline. Hargrove has also commented that Keach could get a response with just a look. Had The Protector aired in order, viewers would have seen the real reason behind Amys asocial, criminal behavior. This is also confirmed by these episodes production codes, which puts The Wedding in between Tommys Girlfriend II and Hard Ass, on a Sirius Radio interview on Raw Dog 104, Titus said the show got canceled due to an argument with executives. They wanted to split up Titus and Erin because the show Dharma & Greg had done similar and their ratings went up. Titus refused, because not only was he still married to his wife, Erin Carden. Upon Tituss refusal, on-air promotion ceased and the show was soon canceled, in another radio interview, he claimed the show was also taken down for its content and being too edgy. As of May 2010, Christopher Titus was reportedly in negotiations with the Fox network to start up a new series again, in March 2014, Titus posted on his Facebook page that the revival project was shut down due to legal issues with 20th Century Fox and limited funding

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Christopher Titus
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Christopher Todd Titus is an American comedian and actor. He grew up in Newark, California, Titus came to national attention with the eponymous FOX show Titus, of which he was the star, executive producer and co-creator. Time called the brutal, hilarious and audacious, while Newsday called him TVs most original comic voice since Seinfeld. He is also a comedian whose act revolves around his dysfunctional family. Titus was born in Castro Valley, California, to Ken and his parents divorced when he was a young child, and he was raised largely by his father, Ken, who had several relationships during his upbringing that provide comedic material for his routines. His mother suffered from manic-depression and schizophrenia as well as alcoholism and she spent time in and out of mental hospitals. At the age of four, he was away from his father. His father planned to kidnap him back and inadvertently told a man about his plans who turned out to be a district attorney. Rather than have him arrested, the attorney gave him legal tactics he could use to get his son back which he used and eventually regained custody of Christopher. When Christopher was 12, he ran away from his father to live with his mother, during which he lived in her garage, but he shortly moved back with his father. Eight years later, Juanita committed suicide after marrying another abusive man and this resulted in Titus having a nervous breakdown on his flight a week after her funeral. His father, Ken Titus, died in 2001 of cardiac arrest, chris Titus dedicated his entire Norman Rockwell is Bleeding special and an episode of his show Titus to his late father. I never went hungry although he did a couple times so I wouldnt, Titus had problems with alcohol and drugs during adolescence until one day, while intoxicated, he fell into a bonfire at a beach party. In the morning, his friends took him to the hospital and he has called this moment his epiphany and began to turn his life around and get into comedy. Titus jokes about darkly comedic oddities such as battles, mental illness, family suicides, heart attacks, domestic abuse. I think our collective psychosis is hilarious, with the world moving as fast as it is, if we werent dysfunctional, we couldnt function, says Titus. He follows an edgy, confrontational format, after years of experimentation with dark and personal storytelling, he debuted his one-man show, Norman Rockwell is Bleeding, at the Hudson Theater in Los Angeles in 2004. Already a standout at the 1996,1997 and 1999 Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, Norman Rockwell is Bleeding talks mainly about his life as a child, his parents, and his relationships

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Cheech & Chong
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The duo met in Vancouver, British Columbia in the late 1960s. Chong was a Canadian citizen, and Cheech had moved there from Southern California to avoid the draft at the height of the Vietnam War, the pair performed stand-up shows, released many successful comedy record albums, and starred in a series of low-budget films. Some of their comedy routines and songs include Earache My Eye, Basketball Jones, Santa Claus and His Old Lady. Perhaps their most famous line is Daves not here, from their debut album. Their early success culminated with the release of their first feature-length movie, Up in Smoke, in 1978. It became something of a classic, and was also successful enough at the box office to warrant two sequels, Cheech & Chongs Next Movie in 1980, and Nice Dreams in 1981. These were followed by the less successful Things Are Tough All Over, the pair attempted a departure from their stoner comedy with 1984s Cheech & Chongs The Corsican Brothers. Tommy Chong directed four of their films while co-writing and starring in all seven with Cheech Marin and they also appeared in smaller supporting roles in Graham Chapmans Yellowbeard and Martin Scorseses After Hours. In 1985 the duo released their album Get Out of My Room and this song would later serve as the basis for 1987 film of the same name, in which Cheech Marin played the starring role. Immediately following the release of the album, Cheech Marin separated himself from the pairs drug-inspired act by working on a solo career, after their contentious parting in the 1980s, the duo spent years without working together. In 1992 the two worked together for the first time in years, voicing characters in the animated film FernGully. In 1997, Chong made an appearance on Marins TV series Nash Bridges, in an episode entitled Wild Card, in 2000 both performers voiced characters in the animated television series South Park for the episode Cherokee Hair Tampons, but their voices were recorded separately. Both Marin and Chong indicated in a 2003 episode of Biography that they were willing to reunite and he was released in July 2004. With Chong released, the duo planned to resume production on a reunion film, a variety of titles were rumored, including Grumpy Old Stoners. But they announced in September 2005 that the film had been canceled. Beginning in September 2008, Cheech and Chong reunited for the Light Up America comedy tour which opened in Ottawa, in March 2009, they recorded two shows at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio for a DVD release of the reunion tour. In August 2012, Cheech & Chong appeared at the 13th annual Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-in-Rock, in February 2014, Cheech and Chong appeared on an episode of Tom Green Live. In March 2014, they announced they were working on a new movie, with writer/director Jay Chandrasekhar

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Up in Smoke
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Up in Smoke is a 1978 American stoner comedy film directed by Lou Adler and Cheech & Chongs first feature-length film. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Edie Adams, Strother Martin, Stacy Keach, Cheech & Chong had been a counterculture comedy team for about ten years before they started reworking some of their material for their first film. Much of the film was shot in Los Angeles, California, including scenes set in Tijuana, while set on the Mexican border were actually filmed at the border in Yuma. While negatively received upon its release, Up in Smoke is viewed more positively today, Anthony Man Stoner, a jobless, marijuana-smoking drummer who is told to either get a job by sundown or be sent off to military school by his parents. Anthony leaves the house in a 1967 Volkswagen Beetle convertible, a car which is subsequently left smoking on the side of the road, Anthony is picked up while hitchhiking by the equally enthusiastic smoker Pedro de Pacas. The license plate reads MUF DVR and they share a large joint, which Man says is made with mostly Maui wowie and Labrador. Police find their car parked on a median with them in it, discover that they are clearly stoned. At trial, the pair are released on a technicality after Anthony discovers that the judge is drinking vodka, in an attempt to procure marijuana, they visit Pedros cousin Strawberry, a Vietnam War veteran. In order to get back to the United States they arrange to pick up a vehicle from Pedros uncles upholstery shop, but arrive at the wrong address, a disguised marijuana processing plant. They end up involved in a plot to smuggle a van constructed completely out of fiberweed from Mexico to Los Angeles, with an inept police narcotics unit. At the Mexican–American border, they almost get arrested but attention is diverted to a group of nuns, the duo then narrowly cross the border into America and pass Stedenko who is giving an interview to Toyota Kawasaki a newswoman. Stedenko then finds out from his unit that they apprehended the group and they begin to chase after Pedro. They dont get far, however, after one of Stedenkos men accidentally shoots one of the tires to the car they were in. Along the way, Pedro and Man pick up two women, who convince them to perform at a Battle of the Bands contest at the Roxy Theatre. Pedro and Man tell the women they need marijuana, the women convince them to see Gloria—a police dispatcher who sells drugs being held as evidence, when they arrive at the venue, most of the bands that are performing are negatively received by the audience. The film concludes with Pedro and Man driving in the formers car, Man then lights a small portion of hash and gives some to Pedro. However, it falls into his lap, causing him to panic and swerve the car trying to put it out. During the scuffle, the car swerves down the road and smoke out the windows over the end credits

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Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams
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Nice Dreams is Cheech & Chongs third feature-length film, released in 1981 by Columbia Pictures. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Paul Reubens, Stacy Keach, Evelyn Guerrero, Sandra Bernhard, Cheech and Chong have a new business driving an ice cream truck selling Happy Herbs Nice Dreams. However, it is not ice cream they sell, but it is marijuana, the two eventually make a fortune. They blissfully plan on becoming Sun Kings in Paradise which involves buying an island, guitars, the police are on Cheech and Chongs tails from the start, as they trick the stoners into selling them some of their ice cream. Stedanko, now himself a stoner, tests the marijuana and slowly turns into a lizard, just as the police storm their house, Cheech and Chong pack up the marijuana in their truck and drive off, leaving Weird Jimmy to be arrested. Stedanko continues smoking their product, becoming stranger and more lizard-like, Drooler and his inept partner Noodles, tail the stoners. Cheech and Chong dine at a Chinese restaurant to celebrate their wealth, there, they are accosted by an annoying record agent who bothers Chong, followed by Cheechs ex-girlfriend Donna and a cocaine-snorting mental patient, Howie Hamburger Dude. The four of them snort cocaine under the table, prompting Chong to sign away all their money to Howie for a useless check, Cheech takes a drunk Donna out to her truck to have sex, but she passes out. A pair of incompetent California highway patrolmen show up, almost busting Cheech when Chong abruptly shows up in their ice cream truck, however, not wanting to deal with the impending long procedure of the arrest, the cops let Cheech and Chong go. The two head back to Donnas apartment, while attempting a threesome, Chong leaves to get ice. At this point, Donnas crazed racist biker husband Animal shows up, Cheech tries to escape out the window and ends up climbing the hotel naked. Chong then returns to the room and hides under the bed, eventually, Animal has sex with Donna and they fall asleep. Cheech gets back into the hotel, returns to the room, Cheech then realizes Chong has signed away all their money to Howie. After getting a lift from Drooler and Noodles, the find and break into the address on the check. They spend the night and in the morning they find Howie among the inmates, Cheech tries to grab Howie to get their money, but the doctors believe Cheech to be another patient and lock him in a straitjacket and chained up in a padded room. Chong finds a doctor to help, and Cheech and Chong are offered the key to the universe, Chong simply passes out but Cheech endures a bizarre trip that finally ends the next morning when the head nurse awakens them. She has realized what has happened and apologizes to them, returns their money and sets them free, Howie also seemingly apologizes, at this point, Stedankos cops show up and arrest the head nurse and Howie instead. By now, Stedanko has become even more lizard like, complete with a tail, with Weird Jimmys marijuana plantation busted, Cheech and Chong resort to becoming male strippers at Club Paradise where they are billed as The Sun Kings

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Prison Break
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Prison Break is an American television serial drama created by Paul Scheuring, that was broadcast on Fox for four seasons from 2005 to 2009, and a fifth season in 2017. The series was produced by Adelstein-Parouse Productions, in association with Original Television, along with creator Paul Scheuring, the series is executive produced by Matt Olmstead, Kevin Hooks, Marty Adelstein, Dawn Parouse, Neal H. Moritz, and Brett Ratner who directed the pilot episode. The series theme music, composed by Ramin Djawadi, was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2006, the series was originally turned down by Fox in 2003, which was concerned about the long-term prospects of such a series. Following the popularity of serialized prime time television series Lost and 24, the first season received generally positive reviews, and performed well in the ratings. The first season was planned for a 13-episode run, but was extended to include an extra nine episodes due to its popularity. In the United States, all four seasons have been released on DVD, the success of the series has inspired short videos for mobile phones, several official tie-ins in print and on the Internet, as well as a video game. A spin-off series, Prison Break, Proof of Innocence, was produced exclusively for mobile phones, the series has spawned an official magazine and a tie-in novel. The fourth season of Prison Break returned from its mid-season break in a new timeslot on April 17,2009, two additional episodes, titled The Old Ball and Chain and Free were produced, and were later transformed into a standalone feature, titled The Final Break. The events of this take place before the last scene of the series finale. The feature was released on DVD and Blu-ray July 21,2009, a nine-episode fifth season was announced by Fox in January 2016 and debuted on April 4,2017, and airs on Tuesdays at 9,00 pm. The first season follows the rescue of Lincoln Burrows, who is accused of murdering Terrence Steadman, Lincoln is sentenced to death and is incarcerated in Fox River State Penitentiary where he awaits his execution. Lincolns brother, brilliant structural engineer Michael Scofield, is convinced of Lincolns innocence, in order to gain access to Fox River, Michael commits an armed robbery which results in his being sentenced to Fox River. The brothers fight to ward off the execution is aided by their lifelong friend Veronica Donovan, however, they are hindered by covert agents, members of an organization known as The Company. The Company was responsible for framing Lincoln, and they did so because of Lincolns father Aldo Burrows, the second season begins eight hours after the escape, focusing mainly on the eight escapees. Series creator Paul Scheuring describes the season as The Fugitive times eight. The fugitives split up and journey to locations across the country with the authorities close behind them as they pursue their individual goals. Brad Bellick gets fired from the prison where he worked as the main guard, several of the escapees reunite in search of a large cache of money buried long ago by another Fox River inmate, Charles Westmoreland. Federal agent Alexander Mahone is assigned to track down and capture the eight fugitives, but is revealed to be working for The Company, which wants all eight men dead

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Lights Out (2011 TV series)
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Lights Out is an American television boxing drama series from the FX network in the United States. It stars Holt McCallany as Patrick Lights Leary, a New Jersey native, the series premiered on January 11,2011 at 10 pm ET/PT. On March 24,2011, FX announced the cancellation of the show, the final episode aired on April 5. An aging, former heavyweight champion, Patrick Lights Leary is an extremely proud, good-hearted. After years of wear and tear in the ring, he is diagnosed with pugilistic dementia, now, Lights is struggling to support his family and their comfortably secure lifestyle in Bayonne, New Jersey, after his amoral and incompetent brother/business manager squanders Lights life savings. Word Eamonn Walker as Ed Romeo Lights Out has received reviews from television critics. Review aggregate Metacritic awarded the series a score of 79%, based on 25 reviews, matt Roush from TV Guide said Lights Out delivers a sucker punch of downbeat realism as Leary takes a pounding from life but refuses to give up. McCallany brings such a dignity to the role you cant help. He went on to say Lights Out has its work cut out for it to find and hold an audience and deliver the proverbial TKO and its an ambitious drama that doesnt lose sight of what Patrick tells a television interviewer about retirement, Sometimes, you miss hitting people. Brian Lowry at Variety said in his review Lights Out isnt an unqualified knockout, and the acting is strong where it matters. Dorothy Rabinowitz from The Wall Street Journal said in her review Its quickly clear that this skillfully sustained, Ed Bark from Uncle Barky said It sometimes lapses into the abundant cliches of its genre. Pound for pound, though, you wont see many better dramas this season, gloves on or off, it keeps scoring points. Lights Out drew 1.5 million viewers in its pilot episode—793,000 of them from the highly sought-after 18- to 49-year-old demographic, viewership declined from there, however, with the series averaging 863,000 viewers per episode. Lights Out was cancelled by FX on March 24, Lights Out at the Internet Movie Database Lights Out at TV. com

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Matt LeBlanc
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LeBlanc also stars as a fictional version of himself in the BBC/Showtime comedy series Episodes. He won a Golden Globe award for his work on Episodes, since 2016, LeBlanc has hosted the BBC motoring show Top Gear. LeBlanc was born in Newton, Massachusetts and his mother, Patricia, was an office manager, and his father, Paul LeBlanc, was a mechanic. His mother is of Italian ancestry and his father is French-Canadian and he attended Newton North High School and graduated in 1985 with comedian Louis CK. LeBlanc first appeared in a 1987 Heinz Tomato Ketchup commercial, in 1988, he starred in the television drama TV101 for one season. In 1991, he had a role on the hit Fox sitcom. He played Vinnie Verducci, the son of one of the friends of the protagonist, Al Bundy and he went on to star in two short-lived spin-offs of Married. With Children, Top of the Heap in 1991 and Vinnie and he appeared in two of Jon Bon Jovis music videos, Miracle, from the Young Guns II soundtrack in 1990, and Say It Isnt So in 2000. LeBlanc found success in the role of Joey Tribbiani on Friends, Friends was successful and LeBlanc, along with his co-stars, gained wide recognition among viewers. For his performance, LeBlanc received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations, three Golden Globe award nominations, and one Screen Actors Guild Award. During this time he appeared in the films Lookin Italian, Ed, Lost in Space, Charlies Angels. His production company, Fort Hill Productions, co-produced the made-for-TV movie, The Prince, following the cancellation of Joey, LeBlanc announced that he would be taking a one-year hiatus from acting, which later turned into a five-year hiatus from acting. His next role would be as a version of himself on Episodes. In 2011, LeBlanc began appearing as a version of himself in Episodes. The series is written by Friends co-creator David Crane and his partner Jeffrey Klarik, LeBlanc won the 2012 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a TV Series Comedy for his performance, and was nominated for an additional four Primetime Emmy Awards. The latest season of Episodes, its fifth, began filming in 2016 and he also appeared in Series 19 Episode 4 to race the New Kia Ceed, and beat the old car time. In February 2016, the BBC announced LeBlanc was to be one of the new presenters of Top Gear, in September 2016, LeBlanc signed a new two-year deal to continue hosting Top Gear. He is also starring in CBS new sitcom Man with a Plan, LeBlanc married Melissa McKnight, a former model, in May 2003

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Van Nuys High School
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Van Nuys High School, established in 1914, is a public high school in the Van Nuys district of Los Angeles, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District, District 2. The school is home to a Residential Program and three Magnet Programs—Math/Science, performing arts, and Medical, several neighborhoods, including much of Van Nuys, portions of Sherman Oaks, Magnolia Woods, and Victory Park, are zoned to this school. Van Nuys High School opened in 1914, four years after Van Nuys was established, for years the only high schools in the Valley were Van Nuys, Owensmouth, San Fernando, and North Hollywood. The main buildings and auditorium were built in 1933, incorporating remnants of the 1915 building which had destroyed in the Long Beach earthquake. For the 1998–1999 Scholastic Assessment Test, Van Nuys high had a 537 average on the verbal portion, the Los Angeles Unified School District ordered Van Nuys High School to convert to year-round scheduling in 2001, due to such reasons as overcrowding. Even though this relieved the overcrowding at the school, the Magnet Programs separated tracks, the Performing Arts Magnet and the Medical Magnet were only available on the A-Track Schedule, while the Math and Science Magnet was only available on the C-Track Schedule. B-Trackers could not take the classes as C-Trackers, while C-Trackers could only take certain A-Track classes. Teachers that had both A-Track and C-Track students were frustrated because the curriculum had to be synchronized with both tracks, Van Nuys High School returned to the Traditional School Calendar in 2005. The switch was caused by a decline in the school population, the opening of Panorama High School in October 2006, relieved overcrowding at Van Nuys High School. Van Nuys High School has had the highest AP passing rate in the LAUSD for two consecutive years, Van Nuys High School was indeed established in 1915. Although, the first graduating ceremony was held in 1914 for a group of students that had previously attended different schools. Legitimately making the class of 2014 The Centennials, the Adult School is on the same campus as Van Nuys High School. It allows adults as well as school students to take classes. Most Van Nuys High School students take courses in the Adult School for academic remediation, however, some take classes for Counselor-Identified High School Credit Deficiencies, while others take classes for personal necessities of flexible scheduling. The Adult School is considered a work-at-your-own-pace program, a student can finish an entire course in just 2–3 weeks, but can take longer depending on the work effort of the student. In baseball Van Nuys High qualified for postseason play, the following time the schools team qualified was in 1989, after a 9–7 victory over Birmingham High School at the Van Nuys-Sherman Oaks Recreation Center. Van Nuys High has a variety of including, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, football, soccer, golf, wrestling, water polo, swimming. It has had rivalries with Francis Polytechnic High School and Hollywood High School

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Bachelor of Arts
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A Bachelor of Arts is a bachelors degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both. Bachelor of Arts degree programs take three to four years depending on the country, academic institution, and specific specializations, majors or minors. The word baccalaureus or baccalarium should not be confused with baccalaureatus, degree diplomas generally are printed on high-quality paper or parchment, individual institutions set the preferred abbreviation for their degrees. In Pakistan, the Bachelor of Arts degree can also be attained within two years as an external degree, in colleges and universities in Australia, New Zealand, Nepal and South Africa, the BA degree can be taken over three years of full-time study. Unlike in other countries, students do not receive a grade for their Bachelor of Arts degree with varying levels of honours. Qualified students may be admitted, after they have achieved their Bachelors program with an overall grade point average. Thus, to achieve a Bachelor Honours degree, a postgraduate year. A student who holds a Honours degree is eligible for entry to either a Doctorate or a very high research Master´s degree program. Education in Canada is controlled by the Provinces and can be different depending on the province in Canada. Canadian universities typically offer a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degrees, in many universities and colleges, Bachelor of Arts degrees are differentiated either as Bachelors of Arts or as honours Bachelor of Arts degree. The honours degrees are designated with the abbreviation in brackets of. It should not be confused with the consecutive Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, Latin Baccalaureatus in Artibus Cum Honore, BA hon. de jure without brackets and with a dot. It is a degree, which is considered to be the equivalent of a corresponding maîtrise degree under the French influenced system. Going back in history, a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree was called a pass degree or general degree. Students may be required to undertake a long high-quality research empirical thesis combined with a selection of courses from the relevant field of studies. The consecutive B. cum Honore degree is essential if students ultimate goal is to study towards a two- or three-year very high research masters´ degree qualification. A student holding a Baccalaureatus Cum Honore degree also may choose to complete a Doctor of Philosophy program without the requirement to first complete a masters degree, over the years, in some universities certain Baccalaureatus cum Honore programs have been changed to corresponding master´s degrees. In general, in all four countries, the B. A. degree is the standard required for entry into a masters programme, in science, a BA hons degree is generally a prerequisite for entrance to a Ph. D program or a very-high-research-activity master´s programme

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Academic degree
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An academic degree is a qualification awarded on successful completion of a course of study in higher education, normally at a college or university. These institutions commonly offer degrees at various levels, typically including bachelors, master’s and doctorates, often alongside other academic certificates, and professional degrees. The most common degree is the bachelors degree, although in some countries lower qualifications are titled degrees while in others a higher-level first degree is more usual. The degrees awarded by European universities—the bachelor’s degree, the licentiate, the degree. The doctorate appeared in medieval Europe as a license to teach at a medieval university and its roots can be traced to the early church when the term doctor referred to the Apostles, church fathers and other Christian authorities who taught and interpreted the Bible. The right to grant a licentia docendi was originally reserved to the church required the applicant to pass a test, to take oath of allegiance. The Third Council of the Lateran of 1179 guaranteed the access – now largely free of charge – of all able applicants, at the university, doctoral training was a form of apprenticeship to a guild. The traditional term of study before new teachers were admitted to the guild of Master of Arts, originally the terms master and doctor were synonymous, but over time the doctorate came to be regarded as a higher qualification than the master degree. The earliest doctoral degrees reflected the historical separation of all higher University study into three fields. Over time, the D. D. has gradually become less common outside theology, Studies outside theology, law, and medicine were then called philosophy, due to the Renaissance conviction that real knowledge could be derived from empirical observation. The degree title of Doctor of Philosophy is of a later time. Studies in what once was called philosophy are now classified as sciences and humanities, Master of Arts were eligible to enter study under the higher faculties of Law, Medicine or Theology, and earn first a bachelors and then master or doctors degrees in these subjects. Thus a degree was only a step on the way to becoming a qualified master – hence the English word graduate. The naming of degrees eventually became linked with the subjects studied, scholars in the faculties of arts or grammar became known as master, but those in theology, medicine, and law were known as doctor. As study in the arts or in grammar was a prerequisite to study in subjects such as theology, medicine and law. The practice of using the doctor for PhDs developed within German universities. The French terminology is tied closely to the meanings of the terms. The baccalauréat is conferred upon French students who have completed their secondary education

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University of California, Berkeley
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The University of California, Berkeley, is a public research university located in Berkeley, California. In 1960s, UC Berkeley was particularly noted for the Free Speech Movement as well as the Anti-Vietnam War Movement led by its students. S, Department of Energy, and is home to many world-renowned research institutes and organizations including Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and Space Sciences Laboratory. Faculty member J. R. Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, Lawrence Livermore Lab also discovered or co-discovered six chemical elements. The Academic Ranking of World Universities also ranks the University of California, Berkeley, third in the world overall, in 1866, the private College of California purchased the land comprising the current Berkeley campus. Ten faculty members and almost 40 students made up the new University of California when it opened in Oakland in 1869, billings was a trustee of the College of California and suggested that the college be named in honor of the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley. In 1870, Henry Durant, the founder of the College of California, with the completion of North and South Halls in 1873, the university relocated to its Berkeley location with 167 male and 22 female students and held its first classes. In 1905, the University Farm was established near Sacramento, ultimately becoming the University of California, by the 1920s, the number of campus buildings had grown substantially, and included twenty structures designed by architect John Galen Howard. Robert Gordon Sproul served as president from 1930 to 1958, by 1942, the American Council on Education ranked UC Berkeley second only to Harvard University in the number of distinguished departments. During World War II, following Glenn Seaborgs then-secret discovery of plutonium, UC Berkeley physics professor J. Robert Oppenheimer was named scientific head of the Manhattan Project in 1942. Along with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley is now a partner in managing two other labs, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, originally, military training was compulsory for male undergraduates, and Berkeley housed an armory for that purpose. In 1917, Berkeleys ROTC program was established, and its School of Military Aeronautics trained future pilots, including Jimmy Doolittle, both Robert McNamara and Frederick C. Weyand graduated from UC Berkeleys ROTC program, earning B. A. degrees in 1937 and 1938, in 1926, future fleet admiral Chester W. Nimitz established the first Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps unit at Berkeley. The Board of Regents ended compulsory military training at Berkeley in 1962, during the McCarthy era in 1949, the Board of Regents adopted an anti-communist loyalty oath. A number of faculty members objected and were dismissed, ten years passed before they were reinstated with back pay, in 1952, the University of California became an entity separate from the Berkeley campus. Each campus was given autonomy and its own Chancellor. Then-president Sproul assumed presidency of the entire University of California system, Berkeley gained a reputation for student activism in the 1960s with the Free Speech Movement of 1964 and opposition to the Vietnam War. In the highly publicized Peoples Park protest in 1969, students and the school conflicted over use of a plot of land, then governor of California Ronald Reagan called the Berkeley campus a haven for communist sympathizers, protesters, and sex deviants. Modern students at Berkeley are less active, with a greater percentage of moderates and conservatives

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English language
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English /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/ is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the global lingua franca. Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England, English is either the official language or one of the official languages in almost 60 sovereign states. It is the third most common language in the world, after Mandarin. It is the most widely learned second language and a language of the United Nations, of the European Union. It is the most widely spoken Germanic language, accounting for at least 70% of speakers of this Indo-European branch, English has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the century, are called Old English. Middle English began in the late 11th century with the Norman conquest of England, Early Modern English began in the late 15th century with the introduction of the printing press to London and the King James Bible, and the start of the Great Vowel Shift. Through the worldwide influence of the British Empire, modern English spread around the world from the 17th to mid-20th centuries, English is an Indo-European language, and belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. Most closely related to English are the Frisian languages, and English, Old Saxon and its descendent Low German languages are also closely related, and sometimes Low German, English, and Frisian are grouped together as the Ingvaeonic or North Sea Germanic languages. Modern English descends from Middle English, which in turn descends from Old English, particular dialects of Old and Middle English also developed into a number of other English languages, including Scots and the extinct Fingallian and Forth and Bargy dialects of Ireland. English is classified as a Germanic language because it shares new language features with other Germanic languages such as Dutch, German and these shared innovations show that the languages have descended from a single common ancestor, which linguists call Proto-Germanic. Through Grimms law, the word for foot begins with /f/ in Germanic languages, English is classified as an Anglo-Frisian language because Frisian and English share other features, such as the palatalisation of consonants that were velar consonants in Proto-Germanic. The earliest form of English is called Old English or Anglo-Saxon, in the fifth century, the Anglo-Saxons settled Britain and the Romans withdrew from Britain. England and English are named after the Angles, Old English was divided into four dialects, the Anglian dialects, Mercian and Northumbrian, and the Saxon dialects, Kentish and West Saxon. Through the educational reforms of King Alfred in the century and the influence of the kingdom of Wessex. The epic poem Beowulf is written in West Saxon, and the earliest English poem, Modern English developed mainly from Mercian, but the Scots language developed from Northumbrian. A few short inscriptions from the period of Old English were written using a runic script. By the sixth century, a Latin alphabet was adopted, written with half-uncial letterforms and it included the runic letters wynn ⟨ƿ⟩ and thorn ⟨þ⟩, and the modified Latin letters eth ⟨ð⟩, and ash ⟨æ⟩

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Yale School of Drama
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The school traces its roots to the Yale Dramatic Association, the second-oldest college theatre association in the country, founded in 1900. George Pierce Baker, a teacher of playwriting, was the first chairman of the department, the first Master of Fine Arts in drama was granted in 1931. In 1955, the department was organized as a professional school. In 1966, under Dean Robert Brustein, the Yale Repertory Theatre was formed to further ties between the professional and academic communities. Lloyd Richards, dean and artistic director from 1979 to 1991, increased the emphasis on new plays, premiering works by Athol Fugard, Lee Blessing. Today, Yale Drama students work on School of Drama productions, at the Yale Repertory Theatre, School of Drama students spend the morning in class, with the exact number of hours varying by their year in school and their department. After 2 p. m. all classes are over, and rehearsals for Yale Repertory Theatre, rehearsals can last up to eight hours. Students also participate in clubs, like soccer and volleyball. Students must hold a degree and complete their program of study with distinction. A Certificate in Drama is available to students who do not hold an undergraduate degree from an accredited college. The school also offers a Doctor of Fine Arts to students who hold an M. F. A. degree in Dramaturgy, committee, and a Technical Internship Certificate to students who complete a one-year internship program of the Technical Design and Production department. Founded in 1968, the Yale Cabaret provides an outlet for Yale School of Drama students. Students regularly work outside their disciplines in the 18 productions presented for a public audience. Official website History of the Yale Dramatic Association

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Fulbright Program
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The program was established to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills. It is one of the most prestigious scholarships in the world, the Fulbright Program provides 8,000 grants annually to undertake graduate study, advanced research, university lecturing, and classroom teaching. The Fulbright Program is administered by cooperating organizations like the Institute of International Education and it operates in over 160 countries around the world. The U. S. Department of States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs sponsors the Fulbright Program from an appropriation from the U. S. Congress. Additional direct and in-kind support comes from governments, foundations, corporations. In each of 49 countries, a bi-national Fulbright Commission administers, in countries without a Fulbright Commission but that have an active program, the Public Affairs Section of the U. S. Embassy oversees the Fulbright Program. More than 360,000 persons have participated in the program since it began, fifty-four Fulbright alumni have won Nobel Prizes, eighty-two have won Pulitzer Prizes. In 1945, Senator J. William Fulbright proposed a bill to use the proceeds from selling surplus U. S. government war property to international exchange between the U. S. and other countries. The bill devised a plan to forgo the debts foreign countries amassed during the war and it was through the belief that this program would be an essential vehicle to promote peace and mutual understanding between individuals, institutions and future leaders wherever they may be. If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace. On August 1,1946, President Harry S. Truman signed the bill into law, since it began, the program has operated on a bi-national basis, each country active in the Fulbright Program has entered into an agreement with the U. S. government. The first countries to sign agreements were Cuba in 1947 and Burma, the Philippines, Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. The Fulbright Program works two ways, U. S. citizens may receive funding to go to a foreign country, citizens may come to the U. S. Fulbright grants are offered in almost all academic disciplines except clinical medical research involving patient contact. Fulbright grantees fields of study span the arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics, natural and physical sciences. Student Program offers fellowships for U. S. graduating seniors, graduate students, young professionals and artists to research, study, the Fulbright Foreign Student Program enables graduate students, young professionals and artists from abroad to conduct research and study in the United States. Some scholarships are renewed after the year of study. This program is currently on hiatus, the Fulbright-mtvU Fellowships award up to four U. S. students the opportunity to study the power of music as a cultural force abroad. Fellows conduct research for one year on projects of their own design about a chosen musical aspect

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London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
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The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a drama school situated in the west of London, United Kingdom. LAMDA is the oldest drama school in the UK, lAMDAs president is Timothy West and its Principal is Joanna Read. It is registered as a company under the name LAMDA Ltd, there is an associate organisation in America under the name LAMDA in America, Inc. previously known as The American Friends of LAMDA. LAMDA accredited examinations at Level 3 or above are recognised within the UCAS Tariff system, as an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, LAMDA receives funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. This means that eligible UK/EU students are able to access loans to assist with their tuition fees, in addition, LAMDA and the Conservatoire have a range of scholarships and bursaries available. The London Academy of Music was founded by Henry Wylde in 1861, providing training for, and examinations in, various musical disciplines was originally the dominant purpose of the institution. However, providing instruction in spoken English quickly became an area of the Academy’s work. In the 1880s, LAMDA began offering speech examinations to the public, since then, these examinations have been refined and developed into a comprehensive system of performance evaluation. LAMDA Examinations has emerged as the largest Speech and Drama Board in the United Kingdom, later the Hampstead Academy was also amalgamated. The name was changed to the current name in 1935, under the direction of Wilfrid Foulis, in 1939, it was moved from London due to the war, when it reopened in 1945, it no longer provided musical training. The past few years have witnessed important growth for the Academy, a move to a larger and more visible home on the Talgarth Road in West London has enabled LAMDA to further develop the campus and training facilities for its students. Furthermore, in June 2004, the Academy became an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance, LAMDA regularly presents productions at the Lyric Hammersmith, Riverside Studios and the Linbury Studio Theatre. Edward Akrout – Angélica Aragón - Richard Armitage – Colin Baker – Jim Broadbent – Kim Cattrall – Sam Claflin – Dominic Cooper – Brian Cox – Benedict Cumberbatch – James D’Arcy –, W. E

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Laurence Olivier
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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM, was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles, late in his career, he had considerable success in television roles. His family had no connections, but Oliviers father, a clergyman. After attending a school in London, Olivier learned his craft in a succession of acting jobs during the late 1920s. In 1930 he had his first important West End success in Noël Cowards Private Lives, in 1935 he played in a celebrated production of Romeo and Juliet alongside Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft, and by the end of the decade he was an established star. In the 1940s, together with Richardson and John Burrell, Olivier was the co-director of the Old Vic, there his most celebrated roles included Shakespeares Richard III and Sophocless Oedipus. From 1963 to 1973 he was the director of Britains National Theatre. His own parts there included the role in Othello and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. Among Oliviers films are Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, and a trilogy of Shakespeare films as actor-director, Henry V, Hamlet and his later films included Sleuth, Marathon Man, and The Boys from Brazil. His television appearances included an adaptation of The Moon and Sixpence, Long Days Journey into Night, Love Among the Ruins, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Brideshead Revisited, Oliviers honours included a knighthood, a life peerage and the Order of Merit. For his on-screen work he received four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, five Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. The National Theatres largest auditorium is named in his honour, and he is commemorated in the Laurence Olivier Awards, given annually by the Society of London Theatre. He was married three times, to the actresses Jill Esmond from 1930 to 1940, Vivien Leigh from 1940 to 1960, Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, the youngest of the three children of the Revd Gerard Kerr Olivier and his wife Agnes Louise, née Crookenden. Their elder children were Sybille and Gerard Dacres Dickie and his great-great-grandfather was of French Huguenot descent, and Olivier came from a long line of Protestant clergymen. Gerard Olivier had begun a career as a schoolmaster, but in his thirties he discovered a strong religious vocation and was ordained as a priest of the Church of England and he practised extremely high church, ritualist Anglicanism and liked to be addressed as Father Olivier. This made him unacceptable to most Anglican congregations, and the church posts he was offered were temporary. This meant a nomadic existence, and for Laurences first few years, in 1912, when Olivier was five, his father secured a permanent appointment as assistant priest at St Saviours, Pimlico. He held the post for six years, and a family life was at last possible

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Village Gate
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The Village Gate was a nightclub at the corner of Thompson and Bleecker Streets in Greenwich Village, New York. Art DLugoff opened the club in 1958, on the ground floor, the large 1896 Chicago School structure by architect Ernest Flagg was known at the time as Mills House No.1 and served as a flophouse for transient men. In its heyday, the Village Gate also included a performance space. The show Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, as salsa music began to grow in popularity, the Alegre record label began to host quite a few events at the Village Gate - many of which resulted in live recordings. Some of the recordings from the Village Gate were the Alegre All-Star Descarga sessions. The Salsa Meets Jazz series at the Village Gate was a part of the history of New York Latin music. In 1977, WRVR jazz and Latin music DJ and jazz musician/conga drummer Roger Dawson created and hosted an event that brought top Latin bands together with a guest jazz soloist. Dawson named the event Salsa Meets Jazz, the club hosted a benefit for Timothy Leary in May 1970 that featured performances from such counterculture luminaries as Jimi Hendrix and Allen Ginsberg. From 1971 to 1973, a comedy revue called National Lampoons Lemmings had a successful run at the Gate. Let My People Come opened at the Village Gate Theater in 1974, the show broke all box office records there and played for 1,167 performances. Its transfer to the Morosco Theatre on Broadway was not as successful, though and it was nominated for a Grammy in 1974 and has appeared all over the world. From 1989 to 1991, the comedy troupe Noo Yawk Tawk performed at the upstairs theater. The group was conceived and directed by Richmond Shepard, a mime, actor, comedian. All of the performances for Noo Yawk Tawk were entirely improvised, characters may have been repeated, but never the sketches or the dialogue. The audience always set the scene and conditions for each improvisation, the cast included Stan Taffel, Marc Kudisch, Debra Wilson, Eric Douglas, Garry Goodrow, Miguel Sierra, Ken Dashow, Nola Roeper, Bonnie Comley, and Richmond Shepard. Taffel would go on to win three Emmy Awards for his performances in The News In Revue on PBS, Kudisch earned a Tony nomination in 2002. The Village Gate name was used in 1996 at 240 West 52d Street. Art DLugoff, co-producer of the show A Brief History of White Music was looking to rent the space in a formerly occupied by the Lone Star Road House

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George Tabori
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George Tabori was a Hungarian writer and theater director. Tabori was born in Budapest as György Tábori, a son of Kornél and his father Cornelius died in Auschwitz in 1944, but his mother and his brother Paul Tabori, managed to escape the Nazis. He adopted the three children of Viveca Lindfors, John, Lena and Kristoffer, as a young man, Tabori went to Berlin but was forced to leave Nazi Germany in 1935 due to his Jewish background. He first went to London, where he worked for the BBC, in 1947 he immigrated to the United States, where he became a translator and a screenwriter including Alfred Hitchcocks movie I Confess. His first novel, Beneath The Stone, was published in America in 1945, in the late 1960s, Tabori brought his own and the work of Brecht to many colleges and universities. At the University of Pennsylvania he taught classes in writing which resulted in Werner Liepolts The Young Master Dante. Two of Taboris plays in English -- The Cannibals and Pinkville—were produced by Wynn Handman at the American Place Theatre in New York City from 1968 through 1970. In 1970 his play The Prince was filmed by John Boorman as Leo the Last with Marcello Mastroianni and Billie Whitelaw, in 1971, Tabori moved to Germany, where his new emphasis was theater work, and mainly worked in Berlin, Munich, and Vienna. He was stepfather to actor Kristoffer Tabori, publisher Lena Tabori and he died in Berlin, aged 93. / Schulz, Renate A. Transcultural German Studies / Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Building Bridges / Brücken bauen

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Morgan Freeman
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Morgan Freeman is an American actor, producer and narrator. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award and he rose to fame as part of the cast of the 1970s childrens program The Electric Company. Morgan Freeman is ranked as the 4th highest box office star with over $4.316 billion total box office gross, Morgan Freeman was born on June 1,1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the son of Mayme Edna, a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, according to a DNA analysis, some of his ancestors were from Niger. Freeman was sent as an infant to his grandmother in Charleston. He moved frequently during his childhood, living in Greenwood, Mississippi, Gary, Indiana, when Freeman was 16 years old, he almost died of pneumonia. Freeman made his debut at age nine, playing the lead role in a school play. He then attended Broad Street High School, a building serves today as Threadgill Elementary School, in Greenwood. At age 12, he won a drama competition, and while still at Broad Street High School, he performed in a radio show based in Nashville. Freemans service portrait appears in his characters funeral scene in The Bucket List. During this period, Freeman also lived in New York City, working as a dancer at the 1964 Worlds Fair, and in San Francisco, where he was a member of the Opera Ring musical theater group. He acted in a touring version of The Royal Hunt of the Sun. He continued to be involved in work and received the Obie Award in 1980 for the title role in Coriolanus. In 1984, he received his second Obie Award for his role as the preacher in The Gospel at Colonus, Freeman also won a Drama Desk Award and a Clarence Derwent Award for his role as a wino in The Mighty Gents. He received his third Obie Award for his role as a chauffeur for a Jewish widow in Driving Miss Daisy, although his first credited film appearance was in 1971s Who Says I Cant Ride a Rainbow. Freeman first became known in the American media through roles on the soap opera Another World, during his tenure with The Electric Company, t was a very unhappy period in his life, according to Joan Ganz Cooney. Freeman himself admitted in an interview that he never thinks about his tenure with the show at all, since then, Freeman has considered his Street Smart character Fast Black, rather than any of the characters he played in The Electric Company, to be his breakthrough role. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Freeman began playing prominent supporting roles in feature films, earning him a reputation for depicting wise

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Joseph Heller
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Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. His best-known work is the novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, Heller was born on May 1,1923 in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, the son of poor Jewish parents, Lena and Isaac Donald Heller, from Russia. Even as a child, he loved to write, as a teenager, he wrote a story about the Russian invasion of Finland and sent it to the New York Daily News, which rejected it. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller spent the year working as a blacksmiths apprentice, a messenger boy. In 1942, at age 19, he joined the U. S. Army Air Corps, two years later he was sent to the Italian Front, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. His unit was the 488th Bombardment Squadron, 340th Bomb Group, Heller later remembered the war as fun in the beginning. You got the feeling there was something glorious about it. On his return home he felt like a hero, people think it quite remarkable that I was in combat in an airplane and I flew sixty missions even though I tell them that the missions were largely milk runs. After the war, Heller studied English at the University of Southern California, bill, graduating from the latter institution in 1948. In 1949, he received his M. A. in English from Columbia University, following his graduation from Columbia, he spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in St Catherines College, Oxford before teaching composition at Pennsylvania State University for two years. He then briefly worked for Time Inc. before taking a job as a copywriter at an advertising agency. He was first published in 1948, when The Atlantic ran one of his short stories, the story nearly won the Atlantic First. He was married to Shirley Held from 1945 to 1981 and they had two children, Erica and Zelmo, while sitting at home one morning in 1953, Heller thought of the lines, It was love at first sight. The first time he saw the chaplain, fell madly in love with him, within the next day, he began to envision the story that could result from this beginning, and invented the characters, the plot, and the tone that the story would eventually take. Within a week, he had finished the first chapter and sent it to his agent and he did not do any more writing for the next year, as he planned the rest of the story. The initial chapter was published in 1955 as Catch-18, in Issue 7 of New World Writing. Although he originally did not intend the story to be longer than a novelette, when he was one-third done with the work, his agent, Candida Donadio, sent it to publishers. Heller was not particularly attached to the work, and decided that he would not finish it if publishers were not interested, the work was soon purchased by Simon & Schuster, who gave him US $750 and promised him an additional $750 when the full manuscript was delivered

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Yale Repertory Theatre
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In the process it has become one of the first distinguished regional theatres. Located at the edge of Yales main downtown campus, it occupies the former Calvary Baptist Church, some successful works were transferred to commercial theaters. Benjamin Mordecai served as managing director from 1982 to 1993, Victoria Nolan has served in capacity since 1993. Calvary Baptist Church was erected in 1846 in the Gothic revival architectural style on a plot of land that was the home of Richard Platt. Upon redundancy, the church was controlled by Yale University, which was served by a nondenominational chapel. Yale Dramatic Association Official website Yale Repertory Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database

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Buffalo Bill
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William Frederick Buffalo Bill Cody was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. Buffalo Bill started working at the age of eleven, after his fathers death, during the American Civil War, he served the Union from 1863 to the end of the war in 1865. Later he served as a scout for the US Army during the Indian Wars. One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, shortly thereafter he started performing in shows that displayed cowboy themes and episodes from the frontier and Indian Wars. He founded Buffalo Bills Wild West in 1883, taking his company on tours in the United States and, beginning in 1887, in Great Britain. Cody was born on February 26,1846, on a farm just outside Le Claire and his father, Isaac Cody, was born on September 5,1811, in Toronto Township, Upper Canada, now part of Mississauga, Ontario, directly west of Toronto. Mary Ann Bonsell Laycock, Bills mother, was born about 1817 in New Jersey and she moved to Cincinnati to teach school, and there she met and married Isaac. She was a descendant of Josiah Bunting, a Quaker who had settled in Pennsylvania, there is no evidence to indicate Buffalo Bill was raised as a Quaker. In 1847 the couple moved to Ontario, having their son baptized in 1847, as William Cody, at the Dixie Union Chapel in Peel County, the chapel was built with Cody money, and the land was donated by Philip Cody of Toronto Township. They lived in Ontario for several years, in 1853, Isaac Cody sold his land in rural Scott County, Iowa, for $2000, and the family moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory. In the years before the Civil War, Kansas was overtaken by political and physical conflict over the slavery question and he was invited to speak at Rivelys store, a local trading post where pro-slavery men often held meetings. His antislavery speech so angered the crowd that they threatened to kill him if he didnt step down, a man jumped up and stabbed him twice with a Bowie knife. Rively, the owner, rushed Cody to get treatment. In Kansas, the family was persecuted by pro-slavery supporters. Codys father spent time away from home for his safety and his enemies learned of a planned visit to his family and plotted to kill him on the way. Bill, despite his youth and being ill at the time, Isaac Cody went to Cleveland, Ohio, to organize a group of thirty families to bring back to Kansas, in order to add to the antislavery population. During his return trip he caught an infection which, compounded by the lingering effects of his stabbing and complications from kidney disease. After his death, the family suffered financially, at age 11, Bill took a job with a freight carrier as a boy extra

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Up In Smoke
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Up in Smoke is a 1978 American stoner comedy film directed by Lou Adler and Cheech & Chongs first feature-length film. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Edie Adams, Strother Martin, Stacy Keach, Cheech & Chong had been a counterculture comedy team for about ten years before they started reworking some of their material for their first film. Much of the film was shot in Los Angeles, California, including scenes set in Tijuana, while set on the Mexican border were actually filmed at the border in Yuma. While negatively received upon its release, Up in Smoke is viewed more positively today, Anthony Man Stoner, a jobless, marijuana-smoking drummer who is told to either get a job by sundown or be sent off to military school by his parents. Anthony leaves the house in a 1967 Volkswagen Beetle convertible, a car which is subsequently left smoking on the side of the road, Anthony is picked up while hitchhiking by the equally enthusiastic smoker Pedro de Pacas. The license plate reads MUF DVR and they share a large joint, which Man says is made with mostly Maui wowie and Labrador. Police find their car parked on a median with them in it, discover that they are clearly stoned. At trial, the pair are released on a technicality after Anthony discovers that the judge is drinking vodka, in an attempt to procure marijuana, they visit Pedros cousin Strawberry, a Vietnam War veteran. In order to get back to the United States they arrange to pick up a vehicle from Pedros uncles upholstery shop, but arrive at the wrong address, a disguised marijuana processing plant. They end up involved in a plot to smuggle a van constructed completely out of fiberweed from Mexico to Los Angeles, with an inept police narcotics unit. At the Mexican–American border, they almost get arrested but attention is diverted to a group of nuns, the duo then narrowly cross the border into America and pass Stedenko who is giving an interview to Toyota Kawasaki a newswoman. Stedenko then finds out from his unit that they apprehended the group and they begin to chase after Pedro. They dont get far, however, after one of Stedenkos men accidentally shoots one of the tires to the car they were in. Along the way, Pedro and Man pick up two women, who convince them to perform at a Battle of the Bands contest at the Roxy Theatre. Pedro and Man tell the women they need marijuana, the women convince them to see Gloria—a police dispatcher who sells drugs being held as evidence, when they arrive at the venue, most of the bands that are performing are negatively received by the audience. The film concludes with Pedro and Man driving in the formers car, Man then lights a small portion of hash and gives some to Pedro. However, it falls into his lap, causing him to panic and swerve the car trying to put it out. During the scuffle, the car swerves down the road and smoke out the windows over the end credits

Savannah, Georgia
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Savannah is the oldest city in the U. S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the British colonial capital of the Province of Georgia, a strategic port city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War, Savannah is today an industrial center

United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean,

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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764

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The signing of the Mayflower Compact, 1620.

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The Declaration of Independence: the Committee of Five presenting their draft to the Second Continental Congress in 1776

Actor
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Anyone who meets the eligibility requirements may apply for aid, which could vary from medical assistance, paying rent, or finding employment. Heros benefits are not meant to be a permanent crutch for needy creators, any granted aid is kept confidential. The Hero Initiative has two boards of directors, the Executive Board and the Fund Disbursement

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The Hero Initiative

Theatre
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The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence, the specific place of the performance is also named by the word theatre as derived from the Ancient Gr

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Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, in 1899

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A master (right) and his slave (left) in a Greek phlyax play, circa 350/340 BCE

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Mosaic depicting masked actors in a play: two women consult a "witch"

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Performer playing Sugriva in the Koodiyattam form of Sanskrit theatre.

Film
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A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, the process of filmmakin

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A vintage Fox movietone motion picture camera

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The Berlin Wintergarten theatre was the site of the first cinema ever, with a short film presented by the Skladanowsky brothers on 1 November 1895. The image depicts a July 1940 variety show.

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This 16 mm spring-wound Bolex "H16" Reflex camera is a popular entry level camera used in film schools.

Mickey Spillane
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Frank Morrison Spillane, better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally, Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself. Born in Brooklyn, New York City, and raise

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Spillane in the " Publish or Perish " episode of Columbo.

Mike Hammer
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Michael Mike Hammer is a fictional hard boiled detective created by the American author Mickey Spillane in the 1947 book I, the Jury. In 1946, Spillane, an established writer, worked with illustrator Mike Roy to create the private-eye character Mike Danger for proposed comic-book or comic-strip publication. Unable to sell the project as a comic, he

Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golde

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The Golden Globe statuette

American Greed
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The program is narrated by Stacy Keach Jr. and produced by Kurtis Productions. The program focuses on the stories behind some of the biggest corporate and white collar crimes in recent U. S. history, examples include WorldCom, HealthSouth, in addition, stories about common financial crimes that affect scores of everyday citizens are also featured.

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American Greed

Titus (TV series)
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Titus is an American dark comedy sitcom that debuted on Fox in 2000. The series was created by its star, Christopher Titus, Jack Kenny, Titus plays an outwardly childish adult, who owns a custom car shop. Titus began doing comedy when he was 18, after two years of relatively normal comedy bits, his act soon began to evolve to focus around his famil

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The Titus logo used in the opening credits.

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Christopher Titus in the "neutral space", where he provides commentary and exposition

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Ken Titus (Stacy Keach) in the neutral space in " The Pendulum ". Christopher, the neutral space's normal occupant, was in a coma during the Live Story as a result of an accident in "The Pit".

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Erin Fitzpatrick in the neutral space, in the episode " Bachelor Party ". Before the series ended, plans were to have Dave and Tommy appear in the neutral space, as well.

Christopher Titus
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Christopher Todd Titus is an American comedian and actor. He grew up in Newark, California, Titus came to national attention with the eponymous FOX show Titus, of which he was the star, executive producer and co-creator. Time called the brutal, hilarious and audacious, while Newsday called him TVs most original comic voice since Seinfeld. He is als

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Titus in 2010

Cheech & Chong
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The duo met in Vancouver, British Columbia in the late 1960s. Chong was a Canadian citizen, and Cheech had moved there from Southern California to avoid the draft at the height of the Vietnam War, the pair performed stand-up shows, released many successful comedy record albums, and starred in a series of low-budget films. Some of their comedy routi

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Tommy Chong and Richard "Cheech" Marin in 2009

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Richard "Cheech" Marin and Tommy Chong in 1972.

Up in Smoke
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Up in Smoke is a 1978 American stoner comedy film directed by Lou Adler and Cheech & Chongs first feature-length film. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Edie Adams, Strother Martin, Stacy Keach, Cheech & Chong had been a counterculture comedy team for about ten years before they started reworking some of their material for their first film. Much

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Theatrical release poster

Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams
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Nice Dreams is Cheech & Chongs third feature-length film, released in 1981 by Columbia Pictures. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Paul Reubens, Stacy Keach, Evelyn Guerrero, Sandra Bernhard, Cheech and Chong have a new business driving an ice cream truck selling Happy Herbs Nice Dreams. However, it is not ice cream they sell, but it is marijuana

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Nice Dreams

Prison Break
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Prison Break is an American television serial drama created by Paul Scheuring, that was broadcast on Fox for four seasons from 2005 to 2009, and a fifth season in 2017. The series was produced by Adelstein-Parouse Productions, in association with Original Television, along with creator Paul Scheuring, the series is executive produced by Matt Olmste

Lights Out (2011 TV series)
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Lights Out is an American television boxing drama series from the FX network in the United States. It stars Holt McCallany as Patrick Lights Leary, a New Jersey native, the series premiered on January 11,2011 at 10 pm ET/PT. On March 24,2011, FX announced the cancellation of the show, the final episode aired on April 5. An aging, former heavyweight

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Lights Out

Matt LeBlanc
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LeBlanc also stars as a fictional version of himself in the BBC/Showtime comedy series Episodes. He won a Golden Globe award for his work on Episodes, since 2016, LeBlanc has hosted the BBC motoring show Top Gear. LeBlanc was born in Newton, Massachusetts and his mother, Patricia, was an office manager, and his father, Paul LeBlanc, was a mechanic.

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LeBlanc at the 2013 British Academy Television Awards

Van Nuys High School
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Van Nuys High School, established in 1914, is a public high school in the Van Nuys district of Los Angeles, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District, District 2. The school is home to a Residential Program and three Magnet Programs—Math/Science, performing arts, and Medical, several neighborhoods, including much of Van Nuys, portions of

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Van Nuys High School

Bachelor of Arts
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A Bachelor of Arts is a bachelors degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both. Bachelor of Arts degree programs take three to four years depending on the country, academic institution, and specific specializations, majors or minors. The word baccalaureus or baccalarium should not be confus

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A certificate or diploma evidencing the granting of a bachelor's degree

Academic degree
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An academic degree is a qualification awarded on successful completion of a course of study in higher education, normally at a college or university. These institutions commonly offer degrees at various levels, typically including bachelors, master’s and doctorates, often alongside other academic certificates, and professional degrees. The most com

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Meeting of doctors at the University of Paris (16th-century miniature)

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Spanish Official University Education Legal Framework 02

University of California, Berkeley
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The University of California, Berkeley, is a public research university located in Berkeley, California. In 1960s, UC Berkeley was particularly noted for the Free Speech Movement as well as the Anti-Vietnam War Movement led by its students. S, Department of Energy, and is home to many world-renowned research institutes and organizations including M

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View, from Memorial Glade, of Sather Tower (The Campanile), the center of UC Berkeley. The ring of its bells and clock can be heard from all over campus.

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Seal of the University of California, Berkeley

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Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais.

English language
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English /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/ is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the global lingua franca. Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England, English is either the official language or one of the official languages in almost 60 sovereign states. It is the third most common language i

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The opening to the Old English epic poem Beowulf, handwritten in half-uncial script: Hƿæt ƿē Gārde/na ingēar dagum þēod cyninga / þrym ge frunon... "Listen! We of the Spear-Danes from days of yore have heard of the glory of the folk-kings..."

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Countries of the world where English is a majority native language

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Title page of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales c.1400

Yale School of Drama
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The school traces its roots to the Yale Dramatic Association, the second-oldest college theatre association in the country, founded in 1900. George Pierce Baker, a teacher of playwriting, was the first chairman of the department, the first Master of Fine Arts in drama was granted in 1931. In 1955, the department was organized as a professional scho

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University Theatre

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Yale School of Drama

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People

Fulbright Program
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The program was established to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills. It is one of the most prestigious scholarships in the world, the Fulbright Program provides 8,000 grants annually to undertake graduate study, advanced research, university

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James William Fulbright

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2008 conference booth

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
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The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a drama school situated in the west of London, United Kingdom. LAMDA is the oldest drama school in the UK, lAMDAs president is Timothy West and its Principal is Joanna Read. It is registered as a company under the name LAMDA Ltd, there is an associate organisation in America under the name LAMDA in Am

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The main entrance to LAMDA

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London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

Laurence Olivier
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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM, was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles, late in his career, he had considerable success in television roles. His family

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Olivier in 1973

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Interior of All Saints, Margaret Street

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Peggy Ashcroft, a contemporary and friend of Olivier's at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, photographed in 1936

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Olivier, with his first wife Jill Esmond (left), in 1932

Village Gate
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The Village Gate was a nightclub at the corner of Thompson and Bleecker Streets in Greenwich Village, New York. Art DLugoff opened the club in 1958, on the ground floor, the large 1896 Chicago School structure by architect Ernest Flagg was known at the time as Mills House No.1 and served as a flophouse for transient men. In its heyday, the Village

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The Village Gate Sign still adorns the corner of Thompson and Bleecker Streets, January 2006

George Tabori
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George Tabori was a Hungarian writer and theater director. Tabori was born in Budapest as György Tábori, a son of Kornél and his father Cornelius died in Auschwitz in 1944, but his mother and his brother Paul Tabori, managed to escape the Nazis. He adopted the three children of Viveca Lindfors, John, Lena and Kristoffer, as a young man, Tabori went

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Memorial tablet at Schiffbauerdamm 6/7 in Berlin

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Grave of George Tabori, Dorotheenstadt cemetery in Berlin

Morgan Freeman
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Morgan Freeman is an American actor, producer and narrator. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award and he rose to fame as part of the cast of the 1970s childrens program The Electric Company. Morgan Freeman is ranked as the 4th highest box office star with over $4.316 billion total box office gross, Morgan Freeman was

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Freeman in December 2008

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Freeman at the 10 Items or Less premiere in Madrid with co-star Paz Vega

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Freeman and daughter Morgana Freeman at the 1990 Academy Awards

Joseph Heller
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Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. His best-known work is the novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, Heller was born on May 1,1923 in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, the son of poor Jewish parents, Lena and Isaac Donald Heller, from Russia. Even as a child, he loved to write, as a tee

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Joseph Heller

Yale Repertory Theatre
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In the process it has become one of the first distinguished regional theatres. Located at the edge of Yales main downtown campus, it occupies the former Calvary Baptist Church, some successful works were transferred to commercial theaters. Benjamin Mordecai served as managing director from 1982 to 1993, Victoria Nolan has served in capacity since 1

Buffalo Bill
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William Frederick Buffalo Bill Cody was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. Buffalo Bill started working at the age of eleven, after his fathers death, during the American Civil War, he served the Union from 1863 to the end of the war in 1865. Later he served as a scout for the US Army during the Indian Wars. One of the most colorful figu

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A poster for a c. 1884 American production of Macbeth, starring Thomas W. Keene. Depicted, anticlockwise from top-left, are: Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches; just after the murder of Duncan; Banquo's ghost; Macbeth duels Macduff; and Macbeth.

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Clockwise from top left: Smithsonian Institution Building, Rock Creek Park, National Mall (including the Lincoln Memorial in the foreground), Howard Theatre and the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

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Map of the District of Columbia in 1835, prior to the retrocession

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Ford's Theatre in the 19th century, site of the 1865 assassination of President Lincoln

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Crowds surrounding the Reflecting Pool during the 1963 March on Washington

Up In Smoke
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Up in Smoke is a 1978 American stoner comedy film directed by Lou Adler and Cheech & Chongs first feature-length film. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Edie Adams, Strother Martin, Stacy Keach, Cheech & Chong had been a counterculture comedy team for about ten years before they started reworking some of their material for their first film. Much

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Site at 1318 Lafayette Street, where James was killed. To the right is the top of Patee House, where his widow Zerelda stayed after his death. His house was subsequently moved to the Belt Highway and later to its current location on the Patee House grounds.